Obviously, at one time its long i was replaced with long closed e, a process usual in southern dialects before r, but not in the north.

显然，它的长音i被长音闭元音e所替代，这种在字母r前的替代过程在南方方言中常见，在北方却不太常见。

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It won't be long before we start seeing ads in e-books, a business professor and a former book editor wrote in a Wall Street Journal editorial today.

用不了多久，我们就会在电子书中看到广告。一位商业教授和一位前图书编辑今天在华尔街日报的社论中写道。

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Based on protocols that were created long before the Internet took its current form, E-mail continues to thrive for two reasons.

根据前不久的制定的协议，因特网以目前电子邮件的形式继续它的广泛流行，原因有两个。

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It may not be long before Amazon and other e-tailers export their increasingly sharp marketing models to Asia, says Visa's Perlman.

CNN: THE E-TAIL REVOLUTION

But before you start shorting the stocks of stodgy old companies slow to the Net, consider that it will be some time--a long time--before e-commerce really pays off across Asia.

CNN: ASIANOW - TIME Asia | Asia Buzz: Let's Lose the Prefix

In recent years, however, the act of reading has undergone a rapid transformation, as devices such as the Kindle and iPad account for a growing share of book sales. (Amazon, for instance, now sells more e-books than hardcovers.) Before long, we will do most of our reading on screens lovely, luminous screens.

WSJ: How E-Readers Change the Way We Read | Head Case by Jonah Lehrer